I have a flatbed plotter - an IBM 7374 which is actually a badged HP 7475. It runs fine attached to a W98 machine and is shared with the other W98 machines here.

I have just started to upgrade some systems to W2K, and checked for W2K drivers for the plotter. Neither HP nor Microsoft do them - their view is 'buy some newer hardware or a $200 commercial driver'. Fine - I don't have to upgrade the W98 machine, so I can leave it hosting the 7475.

But now I find that the new W2k machines will not connect to the plotter shared on the W98 machine. When I try to 'Install a Network Printer', the W2K wizard says that 'the printer driver is not properly installed' (though it runs fine!) and refuses to go further.

Why is this? And is there anything I can do about it?